New Delhi, Jun 26: Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla reviewed implementation of various decisions on COVID-19 in Delhi that were taken on June 21 in a meeting chaired by the Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the Home Ministry officials said here on Friday.
Member NITI Aayog Dr VK Paul, AIIMS Director Dr Randeep Guleria, Director General ICMR Dr Balram Bhargava along with Delhi’s Chief Secretary and Health Secretary attended the meeting.
The Home Secretary was briefed that the decisions were being implemented in a smooth and timely manner and a COVID-19 response plan was finalised for Delhi. District level teams for COVID-19 related tasks were also constituted.
He was also updated that the re-drawing of containment zones including all clusters of COVID-19 outbreak in Delhi would be completed by June 26, as per the timeline fixed by the Union Home Minister and also the door- to-door health survey would also be done by June 30.
According to the Home Minister directives for serological survey in Delhi, the officials said that this would be carried out jointly by National Centre for Disease control (NCDC) and the Delhi Government. The survey will begin from June 27 and training of the concerned survey teams was already completed on Thursday.
Mr Shah also approved the combined use of the Aarogya Setu and Itihaas apps as strong predictive tools for future detection of COVID-19 outbreaks in population clusters, training on the combined use of the apps was imparted by NCDC trainers to the Delhi’s Government district teams on Thursday.
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